Create Beautiful Dual Screen Wallpaper Displays

Ever wanted to make your workspace more exciting? Setting up a dual screen wallpaper can transform your desktop into a stunning visual experience. In this guide, we’ll show you how to create beautiful dual screen wallpaper displays and troubleshoot common issues.

It’s also worth noting that the process below can be applied to more than 2 screens, in fact as many as your system will allow.

Why Use Dual Screen Wallpaper?

Using a dual screen wallpaper allows you to personalize your workspace. It can boost your productivity by helping you organize tasks better. Plus, it just looks amazing! Whether you’re working or gaming, having different wallpapers on each screen can make your setup more enjoyable.

Some great examples are:
- A single image that is split across both screens to create one continuous image. Imaging a scenery that is spread across both your screens. There’s a couple of images towards the end of this article that will allow you to try this.
- Desktop organizers. If you use a desktop organizer wallpaper then you could have 2 organizers, one on each screen. Maybe you want one to help organize icons whilst the other is a to-do list and reminders.

How to Set Different Backgrounds on Multiple Screens

Step-by-Step Guide

Open Personalization Settings:
- Right-click on your desktop and select ‘Personalize’.
- Click on ‘Background’.
Choose Your Images:
- On the ‘Personalize your background’ option select ‘Picture’.
- Click on ‘Browse photos’ to find the images you want to use.
- Click on ‘Choose picture’ to select the image.
- Repeat this process for more than one photo.
Assign Images to Monitors:
- Right-click on the image you want to use.
- Select Set for monitor 1, Set for monitor 2, etc.
- Again, repeat this process for the second (or more) image(s).

Troubleshooting Common Issues

Issue: Only seeing the option to set for desktops and not monitors.

Symptom: There are no options that talk about monitors, only setting for a single or multiple desktops.
Cause: There appears to be some sort of conflict when you are using multiple desktops i.e. virtual desktops.
Solution:
- Close Extra Desktops:
- Press Win (windows Key) + Tab to open Task View.
- Close all virtual desktops except one.
- Set Wallpapers Again:
- Follow the steps above to assign wallpapers to each monitor.

Issue: Option to browse and select photos isn’t showing.

Cause: The ‘Personalize your background’ option is set to something other than ‘Picture’.
Solution:
- Click on the dropdown list next to ‘Personalize your background’:
- Select ‘Picture’
- Follow the steps above to assign wallpapers to each monitor.

Working Example

If you want to see how an image split across screens would look then why not try it out using the following dual monitor desktop images. Simply click on the link and then right arrow to save the file:

Left Screen Image (Click here to open and save)

Right Screen Image (Click here to open and save)